Islamist Militants Kill Scores in Remote Northeast Nigeria
Suspected Islamist fighters killed at least 90 people in an early morning attack on a village in the remote northeast on Sunday, witnesses said.
Gunmen from the militant group Boko Haram surrounded the village of Izge, near the border with Cameroon, spraying it with bullets, setting off explosions and burning down dozens of houses, they said.
“As I am talking to you now, all the dead bodies of the victims are still lying in the streets,” a resident, Abubakar Usman, said by telephone. “We fled without burying them, fearing the terrorists were still lurking in the bushes.”...